Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bddeeaa38590e76b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 14:39:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4001f2e40516eba8b1aff129caa2fdb9 SHA-1: 9a79f158246c26e0c9077c47a736c730cdf86aca SHA-256: bddeeaa38590e76b0a2cc4e68e7a27ced7e10db813ddcb68a34d6c686d4ab5d8
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting it is disguised as educational material to entice users. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=punctuation+exercises+grade+7+pdf, which likely leads to further malicious content.

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=punctuation+exercises+grade+7+pdf
    • http://files.185686508.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969146/wakoxifodol.pdf
    • http://files.ewapointe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407547/negesugoj_nevajez.pdf
    • http://files.portageresourceguide.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739165/5d076e45daf15.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0325/6737/files/5840519454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5093/3156/files/acids_in_fruits_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2588/2520/files/totunajobaxedufiget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/aruba_clearpass_onguard.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5376/0160/files/guparubifel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8034/1917/files/burivafawi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/78142434909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5276/0224/files/motuliwupufogadesujo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8009/5646/files/xovamaboja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0411/6637/files/14879312139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9875/7538/files/17980037206.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/45936180972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3203/4980/files/banilimuxofunilovogopi.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063a3.bin
53a792ea0a10bd26f984839abb3749c138e3788dd0d8db17dbebfd77cf0c64a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63A3 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007644.bin
66e27b7f3d29b27aa1b8a49c9c0d134ddc8051abd35fe030e57aa7f70fd8bc2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7644 10120 bytes